Justice #Kavanaugh pushes the lawyer for the fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter about the #Trump admin’s argument that “independent agencies are not accountable to the people.” The justice asked how the lawyer would respond to the argument that “they’re not elected as #Congress & the President are, & are exercising massive power over individual liberty & billion dollar industries.”

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Finally Sauer is finished.

The justices will now hear from Amit Agarwal the lawyer representing fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.

Agarwal is a special counsel for Protect Democracy, which describes itself as “a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat.”

He worked as a law clerk for Judge #Kavanaugh on the US Court of Appeals for DC, before #Trump nominated Kavanaugh to #SCOTUS. He also worked as a clerk for Justice Samuel #Alito.

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